Arkansas Ticks Are Thick

The ticks are extra thick in Arkansas this year. One solution: mail them to UAMS! I got to visit the campus and speak with the professor who made the state-wide call to send in the unique parcels. The point is to take a survey of tick populations and find out what concentrations of tick related diseases are where around the Natural State.

It’s important to send them year round; different species are active at different times of the year. Dr. Blevins said it is his intention is to continue accepting ticks into the Fall/Winter of 2017 and through early Spring of 2018 to get a comprehensive set of species within the samples.

James is Arkansas's youtuber and has been THE Volkswagen Bus guy on YouTube since 2010. When he's not taking you on a family road trip, James shows you behind the scenes of people building their dream lives, including his own.
From his viral success making rainbow cupcakes, putting the finishing touches on the family's relocated 1936 Craftsman farmhouse and visiting Yellowstone, Route 66 or the other side of their mountain in the Ozarks, the experience is always diverse and fun.